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Paradox2140:We Have NOT Been Here Before

Unprece­dented Power & Peril Likely since humans have fig­ured out the dif­fer­ence between past and future, we have pre­dicted the end of the planet. We still do. Some sce­nar­ios include mag­netic shits or aster­oids. Life hap­pens. Now, under Paradox2140, how­ever, humans can include a capac­ity never before avail­able: com­plete global self-destruction. Cheers! Within 50–70 years of […]

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Why 2045 Matters

Con­tents [ hide ] 1 A Reli­able Mid­point 2 Why Plan Ahead? A Reli­able Mid­point Few can doubt the next oppo­si­tion of Uranus-Pluto, circa 2045, will accom­pany one of those moments noted as spe­cial in human his­tory. The last four asso­ciate to Coper­ni­cus’ Rev­o­lu­tions, the Age of Rea­son, the French Rev­o­lu­tion and Planck/Einstein the­o­ries. null So why bring […]

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Paradox2140:Progress and the 21st Century

Con­tents [ hide ] 1 Estab­lish­ing a Base­line 2 Mea­sur­ing Against the Stan­dard 3 The Results Are In! 3.1 Exam­ples 3.2 Resources 4 Your Turn Esta­b­lish­ing a Base­line Paradox2140 seeks to estab­lish a base­line, a foun­da­tion based on the issues we face and the mood of the pub­lic. i.e, the moti­va­tion and abil­ity to rec­og­nize prob­lems and, […]

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1930 and 2010 Compared: Introduction

A Many Part Essay Com­par­ing the Two Peri­ods Ama​zon​.com Wid­gets For obvi­ous rea­sons, I will leave the com­par­isons between the early 1930s and 2008–2012 to oth­ers who have already per­formed the task. From the begin­ning, I can tell you that both times, like any, are dif­fer­ent. How­ever, enough sim­i­lar­i­ties exist and the line from the […]

Tags: 1848, 1849Uranus-Pluto1965, 1929, 1930, 1960s, 1966Uranus-Pluto2100, civil rights, culture wars, feminism, financial collapse, Great Depression, Great Recession, nationalism, Pluto, Saturn, sixties, t-square, Uranus

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The Future Began in 1965

Con­tents [ hide ] 1 1966Uranus-Pluto2100 1.1 Quick, Make Up Your Mind 1.2 That 360°/0° Thing. 2 Rock­ets, the New Rail Roads

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Observing Paradox2140

Con­tents [ hide ] Does Obser­va­tion Alter Para­dox? Paradox2140 could not have been known until the cur­rent wave 1893Neptune-Pluto2384 since Pluto was not observed until 1930. This is the first of four­teen Neptune-Pluto waves, dat­ing back to 4500bc that the Neptune-Pluto para­dox could be known. How does the observer effect fit in? How to adjust […]

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The Zeitgeist Movement and Paradox2140

Con­tents [ hide ] Dif­fer­ent Paths, Same Result Please watch the embed­ded video and com­pare to Paradox2140:Progress. Both reach the same con­clu­sions via dif­fer­ent paths. I also included Empathic Civ­i­liza­tion video as part of the embed, because it too asks the same ques­tions and pro­vides answers. Who Dic­tates Moral­ity in Moral­ity in the post-Modern World, […]

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Do We Have Enough?

Another Para­dox of Progress Osten­si­bly, this post speaks to BP’s homi­cides and eco­cide in the Gulf of Mex­ico, but as is typ­i­cal of my style, one thought leads to a thou­sand oth­ers. Peak Oil enters some­where in an equa­tion when a cor­po­ra­tion so reck­lessly ignored the safety of its work­ers, its own fis­cal health and […]

Tags: BP, climate change, ecocide, ecology, Heiberg, morality, oceans, oil, peak oil, progress, sustainability, The Economist

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Paradox2140:Progress & The BP Oil Volcano

Con­tents [ hide ] 1 David Brooks Unrav­els Our Com­plex World 2 Addicted to Com­fort 3 A Process Begins 4 Mod­ern Life is Hard David Brooks Unrav­els Our Com­plex World In Drilling for Cer­tainty, David Brooks lights up the tree in regard to what we face now through the 24th Cen­tury. Progress, par­tic­u­larly sec­u­lar based Progress chal­lenges us […]

Tags: 1893, 2140, BP, ecology, energy sources, ethics, globalization, morality, oceans, oil, oil spill.Neptune, Pluto, progress, resources, science, sustainability, technology

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British Elections, Greek Riots, Market Plunge: The Long View

The 1929–1934 to 2008–2012 Com­par­i­son The plan­e­tary  con­fig­u­ra­tions above look sim­i­lar, but are dif­fer­ent. At the same time, the two peri­ods show clear con­nec­tion to each other both through his­tory and through the sim­i­lar­i­ties between the outer plan­ets. Set­ting Future Foun­da­tions I’m going to jump right to the con­clu­sion. We are at a cross­roads that […]

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